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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 696
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES. Provides relative to signature required on certain checks
issued by the Senate. (7/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 24:31.1(B)(2), to provide for the signature required on check2
issued by the Senate; and to provide with respect to related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 24:31.1(B)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:5
ยง31.1. Salary for members; expense allowance; mileage allowance6
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B. * * *8
(2) The funds so drawn shall be deposited in the name of the House of9
Representatives, or the Senate, as the case may be, in an approved bank located in10
this state, selected by the presiding officer of each house. Payment of the salary to11
the persons entitled thereto shall be made by individual check, signed, in the case of12
the House of Representatives, by the presiding officer of the House and, in the case13
of the Senate, signed by a member of the Senate designated by the president of the14
Senate and countersigned by the president of the Senate. Facsimile signatures may15
be used.16
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Present law requires that payment of salaries to House members and staff be by individual
check, signed by the speaker of the House and permits use of a facsimile signature.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires that payment of salaries to Senate members and staff be by individual
check, signed by a member of the Senate designated by the Senate president and
countersigned by him and permits the use of facsimile signatures. Proposed law requires
that such checks be signed by the Senate president; otherwise retains present law.
Effective July 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 24:31.1(B)(2))